We've seen quite a few "Lite" versions of popular apps, including Facebook Lite, Messenger Lite, Twitter Lite, and Instagram Lite. Now we can add another name to that list.

Spotify Lite for Android is now live in the Google Play Store. The app is meant to be a speedy, lightweight version of the main Spotify app that uses less data. However, Spotify Lite makes quite a few compromises in order to be so light on data usage.

There are several features missing from Spotify Lite. According to users on Reddit that've installed it, Spotify Lite won't let you look up or play individual songs, and even if you search for a specific album or artist, you can only shuffle play the songs. There's no extreme quality, gapless playback, or Spotify Connect for sending music from your phone to other devices. There's no option to download music for offline playback, either.

So what features does Spotify Lite have? You can of course play music, discover songs by genre and mood, and mark music as favorites. There's also a feature that'll let you set a monthly cellular data usage limit and monitor how much data Spotify has used so far in a month.

Spotify Lite requires Android 4.1 or higher, and the company notes that the app is currently in testing. However, while the Spotify Lite app page says that it "works on all Android phones", many people say that it's listed as incompatible with their devices.

Not everyone has super powerful phones with tons of storage and a super fast network to connect it to, and so it's good to see Spotify thinking of those people by creating a lightweight app for streaming music. However, Spotify Lite might make too many compromises to be useful to anyone aside from casual music listeners. For example, even though a focus of Spotify Lite is to not take up too much storage on your device, the lack of offline listening so that you don't have to use your cellular data for music is a strange omission.

If you give Spotify Lite a try, be sure to share your impressions with us!